Saturday, January 17, 2015

Manufactured Terrorism – U.S. Officials Claim Credit for Stopping Another Terror Attack Created by the FBI

Nearly every major post-9/11 terrorism-related prosecution has
involved a sting operation, at the center of which is a government
informant. In these cases, the informants — who work for money or are
seeking leniency on criminal charges of their own — have crossed the
line from merely observing potential criminal behavior to encouraging
and assisting people to participate in plots that are largely scripted
by the FBI itself. Under the FBI’s guiding hand, the informants provide
the weapons, suggest the targets and even initiate the inflammatory
political rhetoric that later elevates the charges to the level of
terrorism.

The “war on terror” is the best thing to happen to power hungry politicians since a fire of questionable origin destroyed the Reichstag building
in Berlin on February 27, 1933. Not only does the “war on terror”
represent big business for shady crony capitalists, it
gives politicians, i.e., professional authoritarians, an excuse to
destroy civil liberties and implement a total surveillance system to
ensure the plebs don’t get out of line. This is not just an unfortunate
trend that has developed organically due to a dangerous world, these are
the goals of the oligarch class and they will do whatever it takes to
achieve them.

This is where the “war on terror” and constant fear-mongering comes
into play. There’s only one small problem. In the absence of real
terror attacks in the U.S., it’s difficult to keep the stupid serfs
shivering in a corner in the fetal position. Enter fake terrorist
attacks; funded, created and planned by the FBI.
If you were getting your news from the mainstream media yesterday,
you were no doubt barraged by headlines about a dangerous plot to bomb
the U.S. Capitol building. Headlines such as this one from MSNBC: US terror plot foiled by FBI arrest of Ohio man.

An Ohio man who allegedly wanted to set up an ISIS
cell in the U.S. was arrested Wednesday and accused of planning to
attack the U.S. Capitol. But U.S. officials told NBC News the
man was dealing with a government informer working undercover the entire
time and was never in a position to carry out his plan.

Again, how can you foil an attack that never could have occurred in the first place?

Christopher Lee Cornell, 20, of Green Township, near
Cincinnati, was arrested after he bought two M-15 semi-automatic rifles
and about 600 rounds of ammunition as the undercover operative watched,
according to an FBI affidavit.Cornell’s father, John Cornell, said the family was blindsided by the arrest.“He never showed any signs of violence or anything,” John Cornell said of his son.

Yeah, until the FBI showed up. Turns out the FBI is better at
radicalizing Muslims to violence than any genuine terror network on
planet earth.NBC News even mentions another example (there are many) of FBI entrapment.

Glenn Greenwald chimed in on this whole charade in his usual incisive
manner. Here are some excerpts from his piece (I strongly suggest you read the entire thing):

The alleged would-be terrorist is 20-year-old Christopher Cornell
(above), who is unemployed, lives at home, spends most of his time
playing video games in his bedroom, still addresses his mother as
“Mommy” and regards his cat as his best friend; he was described as “a typical student” and “quiet but not overly reserved” by the principal of the local high school he graduated in 2012.

Just as predictably, political officials instantly exploited the news to justify their powers of domestic surveillance. House Speaker John Boehner claimed yesterday that
“the National Security Agency’s snooping powers helped stop a plot to
attack the Capitol and that his colleagues need to keep that in mind as
they debate whether to renew the law that allows the government to
collect bulk information from its citizens.” He warned: “We live in a dangerous country, and we get reminded every week of the dangers that are out there.”

Yes, we are conveniently reminded of the dangers via fake terror attacks concocted by the FBI.

The known facts from this latest case seem to fit well within a now-familiar FBI pattern whereby
the agency does not disrupt planned domestic terror attacks but
rather creates them, then publicly praises itself for stopping its own
plots.First, they target a Muslim: not due to any evidence of intent or
capability to engage in terrorism, but rather for the “radical”
political views he expresses. In most cases, the Muslim targeted by the
FBI is a very young (late teens, early 20s), adrift, unemployed loner
who has shown no signs of mastering basic life functions, let alone
carrying out a serious terror attack, and has no known involvement with
actual terrorist groups.Consider the truly remarkable (yet not aberrational) 2011
prosecution of James Cromitie, an impoverished African-American Muslim
convert who had expressed anti-Semitic views but, at the age of 45, had
never evinced any inclination to participate in a violent attack.
For eight months, the FBI used an informant – one who was on the hook
for another crime and whom the FBI was paying – to try to persuade
Cromitie to agree to join a terror plot which the FBI had concocted. And
for eight months, he adamantly refused. Only when they dangled a
payment of $250,000 in front of him right as he lost his job did he
finally assent, causing the FBI to arrest him. The DOJ trumpeted the case as a major terrorism arrest, obtained a prosecution and sent him to prison for 25 years.Cornell’s father accused the FBI of
responsibility for the plot, saying of his son: “He’s a mommy’s boy.
His best friend is his cat Mikey. He still calls his mother ‘Mommy.’”
His father said that
“he might be 20, but he was more like a 16-year-old kid who never left
the house.” He added that his son had only $1,200 in his bank account,
and that the money to purchase guns could only have come from the FBI.
It was the FBI, he said, who were “taking him somewhere, and they were
filling his head with a lot of this garbage.”

This guy can’t even make a plan to leave his mom’s house let alone plot a terror attack against the U.S. Capitol.

Having crazed loners get guns and seek to shoot
people is, of course, a threat. But so is allowing the FBI to
manufacture terror plots: in the process keeping fear levels about
terrorism completely inflated, along with its own surveillance powers
and budget. Ohio is a major recipient of
homeland security spending: it “has four fusion centers, more than any
other state except California, New York and Texas. Ohio also ranks
fourth in the nation (tying New York) with four FBI Joint Terrorism Task
Forces (JTTFs).”

Something has to be done to justify all that
terrorism spending. For all those law enforcement agents with little to
do, why not sit around and manufacture plots to justify those
expenditures, giving a boost to their pro-surveillance ideology to
boot? Media outlets have a responsibility to investigate the FBI’s
claims, not mindlessly repeat them while parading their alarmed faces
and scary graphics.

The FBI initially found a patsy by trolling Twitter
for support of ISIS. That’s exciting because finding someone retarded
enough to admit support for murderers is really difficult. Then they
sent an in-house jihadist to team up with the patsy to plan a grand
terror attack on the nation’s Capitol. Heroically, the moment the
20-year-old patsy said he would “go forward with violent jihad” the FBI
steps in and declares a victory in the war on terror.Well, the only reason this story exists at all is to make the
public feel that there are genuine terror threats targeting the US
Capitol. That is then used to justify spying on the Internet and
funding the huge terrorism-industrial complex that has nothing better
to do than make up the reasons to keep giving them money.

British Prime Minister David Cameron plans to lobby President Barack Obama this week to more publicly criticize U.S. technology companies, such as Facebook Inc.,
that offer encrypted communications that can’t be unscrambled even with
a court order, two people familiar with the matter said.The move would extend Mr. Cameron’s efforts to help intelligence
and security officials access the information they say they need to help
counter terror. One issue he and intelligence officials have
highlighted in recent days is the growing use of encryption and the
difficulty it poses for law enforcement. The U.S. Justice Department has
also sought a way to access encrypted communications with a court
order, but has been rebuffed by civil-liberties concerns.Mr. Cameron also plans to mention his push to require
social-media companies to proactively monitor their users to spot
budding national-security threats, the people familiar with the matter
said. Tech executives say that would be a nonstarter in the U.S.Through a spokeswoman, the White House declined to comment on a meeting that hasn’t taken place yet.Messrs. Cameron and Obama are scheduled to meet for a working
dinner Thursday, as well as additional meetings and a news conference
Friday.

A meeting of the minds this surely will not be. In any event, I can
guarantee you banning encryption will stop terrorists from using
encryption as much as banning guns stopped terrorists
from using guns to carry out their recent attacks in Paris. Or as much
as the ban on drugs has stopped drug use. These laws are not directed at
criminals or terrorist, they are intended to keep the plebs under
perpetual surveillance.

Just in case you had any doubt that the U.S. government could care
less about cyber crimes, witness the fact that no one at the CIA will be
held responsible for breaking into Senate computers and seemingly
violating the Constitution. The Washington Post reports that:

An internal CIA panel concluded in a report
released Wednesday that agency employees should not be punished for
their roles in secretly searching computers used by Senate
investigators, a move that was denounced by lawmakers last year as an
assault on congressional oversight and a potential breach of the
Constitution.Rejecting the findings of previous inquiries into the matter, the
CIA review group found that the agency employees’ actions were
“reasonable in light of their responsibilities to manage an
unprecedented computer system” set up for Senate aides involved in a
multiyear probe of the CIA’s treatment of terrorism suspects.“Let me be clear: I continue to believe CIA’s actions constituted
a violation of the constitutional separation of powers,” Feinstein said
in a written statement. She noted that CIA Director John O. Brennan had previously apologized for the dispute but said she was “disappointed that no one at the CIA will be held accountable.”

How cute, Feinstein is “disappointed.” If you or I did this we would
be locked up in solitary for the rest of our lives faster than you can
say CIA torture.

The Bayh-led panel was set up after that fight had
burst into public view. The panel was charged with determining whether
any of the five CIA employees identified in the IG’s report should face
discipline. But the “accountability review board” concluded that the
CIA-Senate arrangement was so convoluted that the panel could find no
clear rules on how the shared computer system was to be run, let alone
whether any rules had been violated. In addition to Bayh, the panel included former White House counsel Robert F. Bauer and three senior CIA officers who have not been identified.

Quotes

"There is beauty in truth, even if it's painful. Those who lie, twist life so that it looks tasty to the lazy, brilliant to the ignorant, and powerful to the weak. But lies only strengthen our defects. They don't teach us anything, help anything, fix anything or cure anything. Nor do they develop one's character, one's mind, one's heart or one's soul." Jose Harris

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